Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Locke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 13, 1959PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCounihan, J.
These cases arise out of three indictments which were returned by the grand jury for Suffolk County. In the first case the defendants Locke and Cavanaugh were tried with several codefendants on an indictment which charged all of them with conspiring together to aid and assist one Elmer Burke, an inmate of the Suffolk County jail, charged with a felony as the defendants well knew, in endeavoring to escape from jail.
The second indictment charged that Locke did aid and assist Elmer Burke, an inmate of the jail, charged with a felony as Locke well knew, in endeavoring to escape from jail.
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2Cases cited11 opinions
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Commonwealth v. FeciMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Commonwealth v. MercierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Commonwealth v. DoweMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Commonwealth v. FestoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DelgadoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. BiancoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. VitelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. FlynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Commonwealth v. StoneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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